Episode 49 : Nina Power

On today’s episode of Walt Right Perspectives I speak with the brilliant

Nina Power

, who recently resigned from Compact Magazine after her ironic private messages from an edgy alt account were leaked as a consequence of legal proceedings.

Nina is also the author of What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents, which advocates a comfy reconciliationist approach to sex discourse and which I strongly recommend all of you purchase.

This was a fantastic and very comprehensive discussion, and I’m certain my audience will greatly enjoy hearing Nina’s perspective on a wide range of thorny issues.

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Topics include:

• How does this compare to the first time Nina was canceled back in 2018?

• The decline of pluralism and open discourse in modern liberalism

• Nina’s book What Do Men Want? and the controversy surrounding it despite its very empathetic / centrist message

• Nina’s engagement with the Manosphere while researching for her book

• The dangerous conflation of science and politics during the Covid era

• Modern framing of sex politics as a zero sum game

• Is lesbian separatism more tenable than MGTOW because of the greater plasticity of female sexuality?

• The traumatic impact of ubiquitous hardcore porn on Zoomer women

• Nina gives her take on Walt’s early female puberty theory

• How early exposure to porn creates a more disembodied sexuality

• How can we get young boys to stop looking at porn without creating a schoolmarmish longhouse dynamic that only encourages such behavior?

• Liberalism failed because it succeeded

• Why Tinder doesn’t work for heterosexuals

• Destigmatizing in-person courtship is necessary for a healthy sexual ecology

• Walt’s argument that gay pride is asymmetric exhibitionism

• Female sexuality is less reductive and this can be both a blackpill and whitepill

• Zoomer women have an inflated fear of men and their massive levels of social anxiety make them much less sexually agentic in practice

• Slapping solves the Problem of Consent

• The traditional sexual ecology requires some cohort of extremely promiscuous women to absorb the libidinal energy of high status cads

• Can tacit mistress-keeping serve as a compromise under a Christian framework?

• Does the growing incel rate necessitate a quasi-polygamous sexual ecology?

• Will low agency guys ever feel the need to try and compete for a mid woman versus sitting around getting addicted to porn and weed?

• Is the sexually redistributive Christian ethos tenable in an increasingly materialist and utilitarian culture?

• The centrality of sexual desire in relationships

• Will the lack of sexual redistribution create an impetus for authoritarianism?

• Does Christianity offer young men anything over alternatives like Islam?

• The liberal western cultural chauvinism of Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders, etc.

• The dispositional tension between individualism / liberalism and the impulse to defend your society

• Can you build a purely propositional nation without any ethnic component?

• Ethnonationalism in Europe vs. America

• Tension between pride in WEIRD Northwest European nature and the tendency to politically act on ingroup identity

• Is civilization inherently self-destructive? Will free people always politically mobilize in defense of socially poisonous dopamine traps?

• Slavery to one’s own desires is the most oppressive kind of slavery

• Is morality scalable to normal people in a complex / abstracted society? Is some level of obscurantism or esotericism necessary?

• Nina’s enemies don’t actually think she’s a Nazi and are just cynically trying to police the Overton Window

• When you ostracize someone for their views you inevitably radicalize them

• Cancel Culture emerges from people being terrified about having their sanity-undergirding heuristics challenged in an increasingly complicated world

• You need to go a little mad to break out of an established intellectual paradigm

• Success justifies itself but nobody ever admits they were wrong

• The inherent pendulum swing of society means pluralism is always necessary to compensate for all of society’s extremes

• How going on steroids is like becoming “trans-man” as a man

• Nina takes a stance against transhumanism and pushes for greater embodiment

• Is the use of amphetamines transhumanist? Is the use of caffeine? What about highly stimulating visual art and music?

• Anabolic steroids as a defense against endocrine disruptors and Adderall as armor against dopamine traps / modern distractions

• Is the ultimate civilizational choice between primitivism and Wall-E?

• Walt needs his addy to work in Excel all day

• America needs to Adderallmaxx to compete with China’s Confucian work ethic

• Geopolitical conflict is inevitable because of competitive male nature

• Why we shouldn’t let China dominate us or spread the Confucian mentality

• Europe and America as Greece and Rome

• Is Christianity responsible for pathological altruism?

• How the Left weaponizes female compassion into pathological altruism

• Is deliberate speciation the best way to escape a dystopian Wall-E future?

• Worship and ritual as a bodily technology

• How do we get Taylor Swift to get married and serve as a good role model?

• Traditional gender roles are undermined by the fact that women are much better suited for modern office work than men

• Patriarchy can be restored by Walt’s effort to build a job stacking gentry class

• LLMs as a digital model for the collective unconscious

• Serendipitymaxxing as strategy for eccentric intellectual man looking for a wife

• The ultimate trauma of women is to be depersonalized / identified as fungible

• Men must become the rake before they can become prince charming

• Is the terminal goal of embodiment becoming more of an animal?